Chain of Command test game, AAR

We had a small test game of Chain of Command some weeks ago.
Two of the members of the club had played CoC before, but it was some time ago. I have the rules but have mostly watched battle reports on YouTube. Im more then sure we made lots of mistakes rulewise but we had fun nonetheless.

I had speedpainted up some miniatures representing a platoon from the 16th Luftwaffe Feltdivision to take part of the testgame.

 

This was a really fun game with lots of potential. Im sure that when we learn the rules properly we can speed up the gameplay and have even more fun.
Chain of Command seems to be a game that I could have lots of fun playing. And as we have decided to play it in 15mm we already have lots of old Flames of War terrain and I have a rather large Flames of War collection still Im sure that I can reuse the vehicles and maybe with some rebasing the infantry of heavier weaponry also.

It seems that lots of members in the clubs are starting to get somewhat eagerly to test something new, taking a step back from 40k or AoS and even if Chain of Command is not a direct replacement for those games Im sure this could lead to lots and lots of fun games.

Here are some picture taken from the last game we had in "Zettans", a local gaming café some time ago.

Sherman DD-tank

Sherman DD-tank

This weekend I managed to get some time for painting mininatures. It feels like first time in ages.

I went back to Flames of war and painted three Sherman tanks with dublex drive. Ready to storm Festung Europa, some support to my slowly growing 29^th Assault division.

Miniatures from Battlefront.

American Rifle Squad

I didn´t have the exact weaponry for an American Rifle squad according to the Force on Force rulebook but this will have to do.

One squad leader and two fire teams, one grenadier in each fire team and one AT4 in one of the fire teams.

Painting modern American camo

I made a quick tutorial how I indend to paint my American troops. Sorry for some of the bad pictures.
These models were fun to paint. Expect more to come.
The technique I will show is something that worked perfectly to paint German tropentarn camo in 28mm and I hope it will work here to.

I will try to paint a 1/72 Caesar model after this camo.

Step 1: Spray paint the model white.

 Step 2: Paint the on the places that you want the camo on with Valejjo 884 Stone Grey.

 Step 3: Use a sponging technique with the packing material you get in some blister when you buy miniature.

And sponge on some Vallejo German Fieldgrey 830 over the basecolor camo.

Step 4: Sponge on some Vallejo Green Grey 886.

Step 5: Paint all metal and other things like the straps for the goggles and so on with Vallejo German Gray 995 (best paint ever). I even painted over some of the earlier painting I have done with a water down mix of German Gray to give a better effect on shadows and to mark where the kneecaps ends and so on.

Step 6: I painted the skin with Vallejo Flat Flesh 955.

Step 7: Painted the boots with Vallejo Iraqi Sand 819.

Step 8: Now I realized that I had enhanced the shadow on the uniform but not on the skin and boots. Now would be a god time to do it instead of doing it in step 5.
So paint some watered down German Gray on the last parts, the boots and on the edges of the skin. I also painted some GW Wash Devlar mud on the places I wanted to enhance the shadows on. You should not paint the whole model with watered down German Gray and Devlar mud as this will make the effects of the camo disappear, just paint were you want to enhance the shadows.
I think the model is now tabletop and could be used in play.

Step 9. I now highlight some of the places on the model with the same basecolor I used on that place. So Iraqi Sand to highlight the boots and Flat flesh to highlight the skin.

Step 10. Small useless detail that no one will notice on a gametable. But fun to see if you look closer.
An American flag on one of the shoulder, a light highlight of dust on the weapon and a thin layer of red on the underlip the model. The lip I painted with GW Wash Ogryn Flesh and this should only be applied on the underlip or else it will look like lipstick.

So there you have it.